Traditional Services

WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH

TRADITIONAL SERVICES

Wesley Sanctuary 7.30am | 9.30am (Live-streamed) | 11.30am | 5.00pm

14 September 2025 | 3^rd Sunday in Kingdomtide

Liturgical Colour: Green (Ordinary Time) 

Lectionary: Jeremiah 4:11–12, 22–28; Psalm 14, 1 Timothy 1:12–17, Luke 15:1–10 

Songs: Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending (UMH 718)
O God of Every Nation (UMH 435)
There is a Hope
Go to the World 

Sermon: The Last Battle (Revelation 19:11–21:8)

I.  GATHERING

We gather in the Lord’s name weekly to be renewed in our hearts and minds. Our worship of God is a response to his revelation as he reveals his truth to us through Scripture, sermon, prayers and songs 

MEDITATION VERSES

1. I saw heaven standing open
   and there before me was a white horse,
   whose rider is called Faithful and True.
   With justice he judges and wages war.
   Revelation 19:11 

2. ²The LORD looks down from heaven
   on all mankind
   to see if there are any who understand,
   any who seek God.
   ³All have turned away,
   all have become corrupt;
   there is no one who does good,
   not even one.
   Psalm 14:2–3 

PREPARATION PRAYER

Unshakeable and Holy God,
you have called and gathered us here.
This world would deny you and rely on human wisdom in search for answers.
But we know that you are Alpha, the beginning of all things,
and Omega, the end,
and all that is between. 

Deliver us from cold hearts and wandering thoughts,
that with steady minds and burning zeal
we may worship you in spirit and in truth.
Amen. 

PRELUDE  

GREETING

PRAYER OF CONFESSIONby Henrietta Stith Andrews, From Despair to Rejoicing

All: O Most Patient God,
we recognize how much we need you for life itself.
But how often have we behaved
as if we did not know or even care about you?
How often have we become the ones who do not carry out justice?
How often have we tried to dominate others,
even as you stand with them?
How often have we participated in the desolation of your creation
by our treatment of the heavens, the earth, and its waters?
Forgive us for these times when we have lost our way.
All-loving God, we want to be among those whom you seek.
Shower your mercy upon us.
Find us and lead us safely home to faithfulness. Amen.  

WORDS OF ASSURANCE

L: My friends, when we are lost, all is not lost.
God is seeking us, ready to turn our lives around,
gathering us in to the people of God.
Let us rejoice in God’s mercy! 

All: Amen. 

CALL TO WORSHIP *by Dr. Lisa Hancock, 2025

We come seeking refuge in a world where goodness and good news can feel far away.
God is our hope and our refuge. 

We come searching for safety in a world that often calls foolishness wisdom and wisdom foolishness.
God is our hope and our refuge. 

We come longing for rest in a world that bombards us with all the ways people work against the abundant life and flourishing of their neighbors.
God is our hope and our refuge. 

Come, children of God, to find refuge and hope in God who delivers and restores us.
May God teach us and guide us to find refuge and be refuge with and for our neighbors today and every day.

All: Thanks be to God! 

OPENING HYMN *
Lo, He Comes with Clouds DescendingUMH 718

SCRIPTURE READING *Jeremiah 4:11–12, 22–28

PRAYER HYMN
O God of Every Nation UMH 435

SILENT PRAYER

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATIONbased on Psalm 25:4–5

All: LORD, our God,
help us to know your ways;
teach us your paths.
Lead us in your truth, and teach us,
for you are the God of our salvation;
for you we wait all day long,
through Christ our Lord. Amen.

MUSICAL INTERLUDE

II.   SERMON SERIES  – BOOK OF REVELATION 7 of 9

III.   WE RESPOND IN PRAYER, SHARING AND GIVING

We respond to God’s Word through the sharing of peace, participating in and praying for the programs and initiatives of the church, as we seek to grow in our discipleship journey, offering time, money, and gifts where help is needed as God’s stewards. 

PRAYER

Prayers of the People
The Lord’s Prayer (WESLEY TULUS)  

SHARING

Welcome
Sharing of God's Peace *
  Shalom to YouUMH 666


Family News

GIVING

Offertory Prayer

Tithes and Gifts to God
There is a HopeCongregation
Words and Music: Stuart Townend and Mark Edwards
© 2007 Thankyou Music Ltd.

Doxology * 
  Praise God, from Whom All Blessings FlowUMH 95

IV.   SENDING FORTH

Having been renewed in our hearts and minds, we are to go forth into the world as Christ’s ambassadors in the ministry of reconciliation. 

CLOSING HYMN * 
Go to the World
Words: Sylvia Dunstan © 1991 GIA Publications, Inc.
Music (ENGELBERG): Charles Villiers Standford, P.D. 

1. Go to the world! Go into all the earth.
   Go preach the cross where Christ renews life’s worth,
   baptizing as the sign of our rebirth.
   Alleluia!

2. Go to the world! Go into every place.
   Go live the word of God’s redeeming grace.
   Go seek God’s presence in each time and space.
   Alleluia! 

3. Go to the world! Go struggle, bless, and pray;
   the nights of tears give way to joyous day.
   As servant Church, you follow Christ’s own way.
   Alleluia! 

4. Go to the world! Go as the ones I send,
   for I am with you till the age shall end,
   when all the hosts of glory cry “Amen.”
   Alleluia! 

BENEDICTION *

POSTLUDE

Prayer Ministry at the Altar
If you need someone to pray with you, please proceed to the inner rails of the altar area. If you wish to pray alone, please use the outer rails.

* Congregation may stand.